Staff Software Engineer

As a Staff Software Engineer at GlossGenius, you are focused on some of GlossGenius's most complex and highest-impact opportunities. You will typically be the technical lead for a team or a large technical domain, work closely with cross-functional teams on team roadmap planning and OKRs, and influence critical technical decisions. As a technical leader, your impact scales beyond your direct team and extends to the broader engineering organization. You hold a high bar, inspire, and level up the engineers around you, and you're able to both zoom out and think about high-level architecture and business problems but are still able to roll up your sleeves and write code when needed.

Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing GlossGenius product offerings
Advise the GlossGenius leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations
Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action
Work with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and be involved in the product ideation process
Continually drive our engineering standards (code reuse, documentation, testing, etc.) and levels of service forward
Take high-level business requirements and develop the technical details behind them. Collaborate with Product Managers to write epics and projects and ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized, well understood by the team, and sized correctly for continuous deployment
Architect tools, services, and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
Uphold GlossGenius’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same
Technical mentor to the growing engineering team

7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience
You are comfortable working full-stack; a lean toward either the backend or frontend is okay!
You have excellent product instincts, think about our users first, and can make decisions rooted in the business context. Experience shipping consumer-facing products from 0 to 1, which is a plus!
You can effectively communicate complex concepts and have experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
You have experience with building a long-term roadmap and technical vision to tackle complex user problems, plus an ability to break it down for other team members to execute on
You have architectural and system design expertise in developing highly scalable and performant distributed systems
You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
You're a continuous learner - learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better
You're comfortable picking up new technologies (currently our team works with Ruby and Kotlin on the Backend and with React and React Native for Frontend Development; no previous experience is needed, but an openness to learn is a must.)